Screen-bed.



F. B. EASTON.

SCREEN BED. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1 s, 1912.

1,040,909, Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

FRANK B. EASTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SCREEN-BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FRANK B. EASTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved cl'eenBed, of which the following is a. full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in hospital beds and is provided with means for screening the bed on both sides of the same When the occupant of the bed requires medical attention. Heretofore it has been the custom to use portable screens to hide the bed from view on such occasions. These screens are more or less inconvenient be cause they take up space and cannot always be moved about from one bed to another. My invention obviates these disadvantages by building the screen into the structure of the bed so that it can be called into use at a moments notice. The bed, when the screen is not needed, presents the same appearance as an ordinary bed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speci.

fication, in which the figure rc resents a H perspective view of a bed screenec along one side of the same, and showm the manner in. which the screen is attache p My improved bed comprises a pair of legs" 1, su c nnects y means of a cross-bar 2. From this cross'bar2 rises a number of upright reds'8, connected to a crossbar 4 at the top,

. this cross-bar 4: being hollow for a purpose which will be described later. The legs 1 support one end of the frame on which the mattress is carried at their tops, the bars constituting this frame being secured to the legs 1 in any convenient manner.

The tops of the legs 1 at thelevel of the mattress-carrying frame are flat, and upon. osts 6, having lateral these flat tops rest arms 7 extendin t erefrom at their tops which pass into t e hollow cross-bar 4, and have telescoping engagement therewith. The posts 6 are hollow and have longitudinal slots 8, these slots facing the foot of the bed to permitrthe body of the screen to pass therethrough.

Each of the posts 6 will contain an ordinary spring roller, and to these rollers the screens 9 will be secured, passing out through the slots 8 and terminating at their outer ends in bars 10 having clips 11 to enorteing the head of the same and able one or both of these screens to be secured in extended position and conceal the vention. The legs 13 are each hollow, and

each receives a U-shaped bar 12. The arms of these U-shaped bars are unequal, the

longer arm having telescoping engagement with its respective le thumb-screw mounte post 13 to enable the lon er arm. of each U. shaped bar to be secure in adjusted posi' tion. The U-shaped bars 12 can of course be revolved around the hollow post 13 as or post 13. 15 is a 1 in the top of each j axes, and can be adjusted so that their shorter arms will be located adjacent each other and rest upon the upper bar 14, in which position. these U-shaped bars will form in efi'ect a rail for the foot ofthe bed; or the can be turned through half a circle and lifted until they occupy the position shown by the U-shaped bar on the left of the figure, in which position they will serve as a brace for the body of the screen 9. The section of the bar 12 connecting the two arms of these U-shaped bars will of course not be greater than half the width of the bed, and the arms 7 are passed into the bar 4 at the head of the bed will be substantially half the length of this bar 4. When it is thereof will be lifted and turned through half a circle outward and then fastened in position by means of the thumb-screw 15. The bar 10 will then be grasped by hand to pull the screen out, and this screen will be passed around the shorter arm of the U- shaped bar 12, and the clips 11 fastened to the shorter arm of the other U-shaped bar 12, which will be located adjacent the midcan be fastened together at the-foot of the I dle of the-shed at the foot thereof. When bed by causing the clips 11 of the one to engage the bar '10 of the other. This will screen the bed substantially on all sides.

' is passed, the clips 11 need only From the above description it will be seen that by making my screen as part of the frame of the bed, the bed can be screened at any time without the necessity of moving around any additional pieces of furniture; and when the occasion for usin the screen ac detached to make the spring rollers in the posts 6 wind up the screen and withdraw it. The

vU-shaped bars can then be swung back to permit their shorter arms to rest upon the upper bar 1e and be secured against move 'ment by the locking devices 15. The bed will then look like an ordinary bed, and the screen can be had at an instants notice when again required for use.

'. not in any for which greatl My inventlon has the further advantage thatit is exceedingly simple and the bed incorporating the same can be constructed at a lowcost; The invention when applied will way interfere with the purpose the bed is required, but it will beds rooms.

I wish to have it understood that the above description and drawings are illustrative only, and that -I do not care to be limited to esigned for hosp-itals and other sick companying clalms.

"Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

, l 'In:' an improvement of the kind deside of the bed.

add to the utility and convenience of details shown and described, exceptin' so far as is expressly indicated in the acscribed, a bed having a screen attached to one end, means for extending said screen from said end to the other end of said bed and securing the same to the other end, and means for spacing said screen from aside of said bed.

2. In an improvement of the kind described, a bed having a hollow cross-bar at one end thereof, a 0st having a lateral arm extending into said cross-bar, a screen carried by said p0st, whereby, when said post is moved to withdraw said arm in part from the bar and-the screen carried by said post extended, the said screen will be spaced from the side of the bed, and means for securing the outer end of the screen to the other end of the bed. Y 1 e 3. In an improvement of the kind described, the combination of a bed having a screen secured to one end of the same, said bed having a hollow post at the other end, a'

U-shaped bar pivotally. and slidably mounted in said post, and means carriedb said post for securing said arm in adjuste position, whereby, when the U-shaped bar is swung into position to project laterally from the bed and the screen extended and secured to the foot of the bed, the said U-shaped bar will cause said screen to be spaced from the 4. In an improvement of the described, the combination of a bed having a hollow cross bar at one end, a post having an arm extending laterally therefrom received a screen carried by said by said cross-bar, post, a hollow post located at the other end of the bed, a U-shaped barjpivotally and rotatably carried by said hollow post, and

means forsecuring said U-shaped bar in adj usted position, whereby, when the-post is -moved to withdraw'the arm in part from the hollow bar, and the U-shaped arm is secured in position to project laterally from the bed and the screen extended, the screen will be spaced from the side of the bed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. FRANK B. EASTON. Witnesses: I

VVILL'IAM F. NIC EL,

PHILIP D. RoLLnAns. 

